.ME of course

As was announced on Name.ly/Blog on the Christmas day, That-Is.Me, one of Name.ly/Sites, started to offer email services with catchy addresses. Here goes their demo video for Sincere.ly:

Posted on December 26th, 2011 • Category: .LY, .ME • Comments Off on That-Is.Me is now offering email addresses

Trade Me, the most popular online trading portal in New Zealand has acquired premium domain name Cool.Me. So far it is not clear what are the plans for this domain name.

Posted on December 16th, 2011 • Category: .LY, .ME, .NZ • Comments (3)

.ME is enjoying another good year. In the most recent 2010 report Sedo listed it back in top 10 ccTLDs. In Q4 2010 alone, .me was ccTLD #4, right after .de, .co.uk, and .eu and well above .nl, .es, .fr, .co, .be, and .tv. Quite an achivement. In our previous post we have reported three […]

Posted on February 9th, 2011 • Category: .LY, .ME, Domainers, Examples, News • Comments (4)

Posted on November 7th, 2010 • Category: .LY • Comments Off on b.ly auction

After few hours spent on discussing the previous post, an interesting summary was born. Below is the list of TLDs as they were searched in domain names of other TLDs stress-testing their suitability to brandability and some extend to domain hacking. Domain name like “home.co.ke” was counted as the one ending with “me”. Numbers represent […]

Posted on September 15th, 2010 • Category: .ASIA, .AT, .AU, .BIZ, .CA, .CH, .CN, .CO, .COM, .CZ, .DE, .DK, .ES, .EU, .FR, .IN, .INFO, .IT, .JP, .LY, .ME, .MOBI, .NAME, .NET, .NL, .ORG, .PL, .RS, .RU, .SE, .TEL, .TRAVEL, .TV, .UA, .US • Comments (5)

After some Excel crunching staff at Brands-and-Jingles has found 7075 domain names in the Alexa top one million that ended with “me” but were not “.me” sites. When we added another 1000+ of the latter, which made it into the top list as well, we realised that nearly one percent of all global sites are […]

Posted on September 15th, 2010 • Category: .ASIA, .AT, .AU, .BIZ, .CA, .CH, .CN, .CO, .COM, .CZ, .DE, .DK, .ES, .EU, .FR, .GS, .IN, .INFO, .IT, .JP, .LY, .ME, .MOBI, .NAME, .NET, .NL, .ORG, .PL, .RS, .RU, .SE, .TEL, .TRAVEL, .TV, .UA, .US, .YU, Analysis • Comments (10)

As found on gg.ly, “hey! everybody! pay attention to me!”: An interesting bug, any idea of what is it campaigning for?

Posted on June 14th, 2009 • Category: .LY, .ME • Comments (1)

Now, that the .me rush is cooling down, at least with all top names taken, we have analysed 3269 top English words including 1000 commonly used verbs. At the beginning, our analysts filtered out 30 one-letter and 54 two-letter words. This formed a basis set of 3185 common English words available for domainers, starting from […]

Posted on January 19th, 2009 • Tags: domainer, Domainers, go live, investor, investors, land rush, top • Category: .LY, .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples • Comments (10)

Surprise, surprise, late.ly was registered by Matt Mullenweg, a WordPress founder. Matt loves domains hacks and he probab.ly already has something in mind of it. In any case, it is a good token for .ly’s. In last two months, the Libyan registry was busy with cashing in, people final.ly started to buy .ly’s. So during […]

Posted on December 15th, 2008 • Category: .LY, Discussions • Comments (22)